Danish newspaper war summarized

Posted on | May 8, 2009 | No Comments

In recent years a newspaper war raged in Denmark – mainly as a consequence of fierce competition between the well-established Danish printing houses and a new Icelandic-funded intruder, battling to lead the free daily newspaper market. It did indeed get bloody.
Given my interest in the ongoing global paradigm change in news publication (news moving from print to the online shpere), I’ve followed the development of the Danish newspaper feude fairly closely, but so far never read an article that summarized the entire course of events as well as this one one in Chris Anderson’s (of The Long Tail fame) Wired blog, referencing an original account made by Jon Lund, head of the Danish Internet Advertising Bureau. It’s highly recommended reading, if you dig this topic.

Other good sources in this field (as namedropped earlier) are blogs such as Journalism 2.0, Beatblogging.org and Publishing 2.0.

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